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The Lord, the only God, is great
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 21 hymnals Used With Tune: DUNDEE
The Lord, the only God, is great
[The Lord, the only God, is great]
Appears in 2 hymnals Incipit: 33456 23444 32565 Used With Text: The Lord, the only God, is great
[The Lord, the only God, is great]
The Lord, the only God, is great, And greatly to be praised
Author: Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 Hymnal: A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for ... Diocese of Nova Scotia. 3rd ed. #d311 (1859) Languages: English
The Lord, the only God, is great, And greatly to be praised
The Lord, the only God, is great
Hymnal: Prayer Book and Hymnal for the Sunday School #78 (1885) Languages: English Tune Title: [The Lord, the only God, is great]
The Lord, the only God, is great
The Lord, the only God, is great
Hymnal: A New Version of the Psalms of David #XLVIII (1760) Lyrics: 1 The Lord, the only God, is great,
and greatly to be prais'd
In Sion, on whose happy Mount
his sacred Throne is rais'd.
2 Her Tow'rs, the Joy of all the Earth
with beauteous Prospect rise;
On her north-Side th' Almighty King's
Imperial City lies.
3 God in her Palaces is known:
His Presence is her Guard:
4 Confed'rate Kings withdrew their Siege,
and of Success despair'd.
5 They view'd her Walls, admir'd and fled,
with Grief and Terror struck;
6 Like Women whom the sudden Pangs
of Travail had o'ertook.
7 No wretched Crew of Mariners
appear like them forlorn,
When Fleets from Tarshish' wealthy Coasts
by Eastern Winds are torn.
8 In Sion we have seen perform'd
a Work that was foretold,
In Pledge that God, for Times to come,
His City will uphold.
9 Not in our Fortresses and Walls
did we, O God, confide;
But on the Temple fix'd our Hopes,
in which Thou dost reside.
10 According to thy Sov'reign Name,
thy Praise thro' Earth extends;
Thy pow'rful Arm, as Justice guides,
chastises, or defends.
11 Let Sion's Mount with Joy resound,
her Daughters all be taught,
In Songs his Judgments to extol,
who this Deliv'rance wrought.
12 Compass her Walls in solemn Pomp;
your Eyes quite round her cast;
Count all her Tow'rs, and see if there
you find one Stone displac'd.
13 Her Forts and Palaces survey;
observe their Order well;
That, with Assurance, to your Heirs
this Wonder you may tell.
14 This God is ours, and will be ours,
whilst we in Him confide;
Who, as He has preserv'd us now,
till Death will be our Guide.
Scripture: Psalm 48 Languages: English
The Lord, the only God, is great
Nahum Tate
1652 - 1715 Person Name: Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 Author of "The Lord, the only God, is great, And greatly to be praised" in A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for ... Diocese of Nova Scotia. 3rd ed. Nahum Tate was born in Dublin and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1672. He lacked great talent but wrote much for the stage, adapting other men's work, really successful only in a version of King Lear. Although he collaborated with Dryden on several occasions, he was never fully in step with the intellectual life of his times, and spent most of his life in a futile pursuit of popular favor. Nonetheless, he was appointed poet laureate in 1692 and royal historiographer in 1702. He is now known only for the New Version of the Psalms of David, 1696, which he produced in collaboration with Nicholas Brady. Poverty stricken throughout much of his life, he died in the Mint at Southwark, where he had taken refuge from his creditors, on August 12, 1715.
--The Hymnal 1940 Companion
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William Crotch
1775 - 1847 Person Name: Dr. Wm. Crotch Composer of "UDA" in Carmina Sacra William Crotch (5 July 1775 – 29 December 1847) was an English composer, organist and artist.
Born in Norwich, Norfolk to a master carpenter he showed early musical talent as a child prodigy. The three and a half year old Master William Crotch was taken to London by his ambitious mother, where he not only played on the organ of the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, but for King George III. The London Magazine of April 1779 records:
He appears to be fondest of solemn tunes and church musick, particularly the 104th Psalm. As soon as he has finished a regular tune, or part of a tune, or played some little fancy notes of his own, he stops, and has some of the pranks of a wanton boy; some of the company then generally give him a cake, an apple, or an orange, to induce him to play again...
Crotch was later to observe that this experience led him to become a rather spoiled child, excessively indulged so that he would perform.
He was for a time organist at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he was later to graduate with a Bachelor of Music degree.
His composition The Captivity of Judah was played at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, on 4 June 1789; his most successful composition in adulthood was the oratorio Palestine (1812). He may have composed the Westminster Chimes in 1793.
In 1797 Crotch was given a professorship at Oxford University, and in 1799 he acquired a doctorate in music. While at Oxford, he became acquainted with the musician and artist John Malchair, and took up sketching. He followed Malchair's style in recording the exact time and date of each of his pictures, and when he met John Constable in London in 1805, he passed the habit along to the more famous artist.
In 1834, to commemorate the installation of the Duke of Wellington as chancellor of the University of Oxford, Crotch penned a second oratorio titled The Captivity of Judah. The 1834 work bears little resemblance to the oratorio he wrote as a child in 1789.
In 1822, Crotch was appointed to the Royal Academy of Music as its first Principal, but resigned ten years later.[2] He spent his last years at his son's house in Taunton, Somerset, where he died suddenly in 1847. Among his notable pupils were William Sterndale Bennett, Lucy Anderson, Stephen Codman, George Job Elvey, Cipriani Potter, and Charles Kensington Salaman
--en.wikipedia.org/
William Crotch
